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Why the slam on the Post story on parking tickets?

Half of all contested parking tickets are tossed out. What does that tell you about their validity?

Parking fines are a huge revenue source for the city. It makes sense that meter maids are "encouraged" to write as many tickets for they can and that leads to the issuance of bogus tickets. And the city clearly knows that a large number of recipients of these bogus tickets won't bother to appeal them, thereby pocketing the money.

I'm not sure why the need for such a dismissive tone of an article that makes pretty clear that the city is knowingly issuing a large number of bogus parking tickets simply to pocket the revenue. I'm fairly certain that if WABA or some other favored group pitched a story to the Post about similar stats on the number of jaywalking or cycling tickets, we wouldn't be seeing such a dismissive tone.

by Fritz on Aug 24, 2011 10:16 am • link • report

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